[Inclosure Numbers 6.]

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

Tallahassee, June 14, 1864.

Honorable JAMES B. DAWKINS,

Judge of the Suwannee Circuit, Gainesville:

DEAR SIR: Your communication of the 9th instant has been handed to me by Charles Cooper, esq. I regret extremely the conflict of authority wihich has occurred, and while I concur in opinion with the Confederate authorities as to the existing military necessity for a removal of the iron from parts of the Florida road and its appropriation in connecting the Pensacola and Georgia Railroad with the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad in Georgia, yet my judgment does not approve of the utter disregard of the judicial authority of the State. Believing yourself to have had jurisdictio in the premises, upon the application of the parties in interest you could not properly have refused the injunction. It seems to me that there is no good reason why the agents of the Confederate Government did not move upon sufficient causes, if any existed, to have the injunction dissolved. I shall submit a copy of your communication to the President to the President of the Confederate States and to Major-General Anderson, and as the Executive of the State demand the proper respect due to your authority. It is possible that counsel could not be employed to move for the dissolution of the injunction, and an urgent necessity existed in the judgment of the military authorities which would admit of no delay; but whatever the causes may be, I will demand that they shall be respectfully susbmitted to your consideration, and will extend the support due from the Executive to the judiciary of the State, and to the utmost of my ability consistent with the safety of the State. In the present unhappy condition of the country nothing can justify a conflict between the State and the Confederate Government but an absolute necessity for the protection of civil liberty as intended to be secured by the constitution of the State and of the Confederate States.

I have the honor to be, very respectfully,

JOHN MILTON,

Governor of Florida.

[Inclosure Numbers 7.]

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

Tallahassee, June 14, 1864.

Major General PATTON ANDERSON,

Headquarters, Lake City:

GENERAL: I submit respectfully to your consideration copies of a correspondence which will be handed to you by the Honorable John B. Galbraith, attorney-general of the State, between the Honorable James B. Dawkins, the presiding judge of the Suwannee circuit in this State, and myself, relative to the impressment of the iron on the Florida Railroad, and also copies of letters addressed to my by James Banks and Charles Cooper, esqs., attorneys, who represent the parties interested. I regret extremely that this conflict of authority should occur, especially at this time, and desiring, if it be possible, by any menas, that this difference may be adjusted speedily and amicably, I address you for the purpose of requesting that you will exercise whatever authority and discretion you may have to that end. I am informed that there is no disposition on the part of those interested for the Florida Railroad to produce any unnecessary delay in the adjudication of the questions arising between